Woking team will benefit next year from push in final stretch before team enters a new era with Honda in 2015

Points for both drivers in the last seven races is the target set by McLaren boss Eric Boullier.

The Italian Grand Prix at Monza on Sunday – which is expected to produce the fastest speeds of the season – is the first of seven races which will determine not only the fate of this year’s title but may go a long way to shape the next campaign too.

Jenson Button took sixth spot at Spa Francorchamps and team-mate Kevin Magnussen would have been just one behind but for a 20-second post-race penalty imposed by stewards for a clash with Fernando Alonso – all the more controversial given their lack of action when Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton collided.

So Boullier wants more of the same, if not the penalty, with McLaren also keen to see off the challenge of Force India for a top five place in the constructors’ championship.

He said: “Our aim for the remainder of the season is both to consolidate our position in the constructors’ by bringing both cars home in the points at each and every race, and also to continue to push hard to improve and refine the MP4-29.

“There will be no easing off on the gas in terms of development, as everything we learn now will roll into next year’s technical package.”

Button is eighth in the drivers’ list, three spots in front of his young team-mate, and reckons Monza is a “very special place”.

He added: “It’s such a fast circuit that it really requires a different driving approach to any other circuit on the calendar.

“You’re running such low levels of downforce that braking and accelerating are made much trickier – under heavy braking, the car is constantly trying to break away from you.”

Magnussen hopes finishing second in two World Series by Renault 3.5 races last year is a good omen.

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